What is a visual learner? Learners can be visual (sight), auditive (hearing) or kinaesthetic (más)

What is a visual learner? Learners can be visual (sight), auditive (hearing) or kinaesthetic (practise)
A visual learner is the type of person who learns through images and seeing things
Visual learners also use the other two learning methods, but their main learning channel is their sight
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Characteristics of visual learners They are good at spelling but they forget people’s names
They (más)

Characteristics of visual learners They are good at spelling but they forget people’s names
They need silence when they are studying
They like (and dream in) colours
They are good at sign language (menos)

Characteristics of visual learners Their visual perspective is their organising principle
They (más)

Characteristics of visual learners Their visual perspective is their organising principle
They care about their personal presentation (dressing, gestures)
They are perfectionists
They are skilled at making graphs, charts and other visual displays (menos)

I am a visual learner. What does this mean? “It is said that if you know your enemies and know (más)

I am a visual learner. What does this mean? “It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.” (Sun Tzu) (menos)

I am a visual learner. What does this mean? Popular saying: Know yourself, your enemy and your (más)

I am a visual learner. What does this mean? Popular saying: Know yourself, your enemy and your weapons and you will have the key for victory
You: the student
Your enemies: exams and projects
Your weapons: your learning style
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Conclusion Focus on your main learning skill, but do not forget the other two
Have patience (más)

Conclusion Focus on your main learning skill, but do not forget the other two
Have patience when you try new learning methods, they might not show inmediate results
Remember that you must be hardworking, regardless of your learning skills
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THERE IS A DEMOCRATIZATION OF MEDIA And the user adopts a different attitude, becoming more (más)

THERE IS A DEMOCRATIZATION OF MEDIA And the user adopts a different attitude, becoming more dynamic and interactive. They can produce their own products and information and become an author, acting proactively
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8 ELDERLY PEOPLE IN SPAIN :
25% of retired urban people begin a new and active style of life at (más)

8 ELDERLY PEOPLE IN SPAIN :
25% of retired urban people begin a new and active style of life at their retirement. Now they can broaden their social life.
Nearly 20% of them are working with their family and at home.
30% of them continue enjoying a good social life.
About 15% live a resigned life. (menos)

9 Do they have different ways of thinking about learning New Technologies?
Differences in (más)

9 Do they have different ways of thinking about learning New Technologies?
Differences in technology use according to user’s ages.
The main barrier detected is the attitudes of the elderly
A series of physical and environmental limitations. (menos)

10 LACK OF ECONOMIC RESOURCES
The percentage of poor elderly people with respect to poverty in (más)

10 LACK OF ECONOMIC RESOURCES
The percentage of poor elderly people with respect to poverty in general, is superior.
Media, implies an important digital investment to be able to acquire it.
Digital television sets, more expensive than the analogical ones. (menos)

11 ELDERLY PEOPLE AND THE LEVEL OF STUDIES
7.6% Spaniards who are 65 over are illiterate,
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11 ELDERLY PEOPLE AND THE LEVEL OF STUDIES
7.6% Spaniards who are 65 over are illiterate,
32.4% have not completed primary studies;
Only 11.4% have secondary studies and
6.6% higher studies.
In relation to gender: the rate of illiteracy of women (9.8%) duplicate that of men (4.7%) and only 4.5% have higher studies, against 7.0% of men. . (menos)

12 HOW ELDERLY PEOPLE ARE SEEN BY THE MEDIA
Little interest related regarding elderly people in (más)

12 HOW ELDERLY PEOPLE ARE SEEN BY THE MEDIA
Little interest related regarding elderly people in all the mass media.
The most used theme is usually related:
to health
to population
and to dependency . (menos)

13 HOW ELDERLY PEOPLE ARE SEEN BY THE MEDIA
The series of fiction project a stereotyped image of (más)

13 HOW ELDERLY PEOPLE ARE SEEN BY THE MEDIA
The series of fiction project a stereotyped image of elderly people, like expert and protective advisor of the family.
Generally, the image of the elderly people projected through mass media, is an image that does not correspond with reality. (menos)

15 SOME ELDERLY PEOPLE´S OPINIONS ABOUT MEDIA :
When they are in front of a technological (más)

15 SOME ELDERLY PEOPLE´S OPINIONS ABOUT MEDIA :
When they are in front of a technological appliance, like a video, say: “I do not know how to use it, but I do not worry because…”.
If they are speaking about a hi-fi system, they say: “it has a lot of buttons. I prefer my little radio”
Many people say: “I do not like New Technologies.
I think face to face communication is the most important. I also have my grandchildren´s example and they spend a long time in front of the computer. Dialogue and communication are being lost with these inventions. (menos)

16 WHY ELDERLY PEOPLE DO NOT GET INTO INTERNET:
Speaking about this subject makes them nervous. (más)

16 WHY ELDERLY PEOPLE DO NOT GET INTO INTERNET:
Speaking about this subject makes them nervous.
They can be people who have never played with a computer.
They may think that they could touch the wrong key and lose information or even erase the hard disk.
Some of them are people who do not believe in the method of trial and error as a way of learning. .
Their bad first experiences can get frustrating.
They can feel overwhelmed with the information when they have a doubt about the theme.
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17 TELEVISION IS THE PREFERRED ENTERTAINMENT OPTION OF THE ELDERLY One of the most important (más)

17 TELEVISION IS THE PREFERRED ENTERTAINMENT OPTION OF THE ELDERLY One of the most important activities in the life of elderly people is media audience: nine out of ten elderly people watch television all or almost every day and one out of two listens to the radio. (menos)

18 TELEVISION IS THE PREFERRED ENTERTAINMENT OPTION OF THE ELDERLY We consider that 92.7% use (más)

18 TELEVISION IS THE PREFERRED ENTERTAINMENT OPTION OF THE ELDERLY We consider that 92.7% use it.
Occupying between 3 and 5 hours daily.
Watching between 1 to 3 programmes everyday
The favourite place (94, 9%) is at home, in the afternoon and evening, between 17 and 20 hours (63.3%). (menos)

20 WHAT FUNCTION AND INFLUENCE HAS MEDIA :
Television and radio are more a basic sound.
An (más)

20 WHAT FUNCTION AND INFLUENCE HAS MEDIA :
Television and radio are more a basic sound.
An instrument that allows time organization of activity of daily life.
They are not conscious of the manipulating possibilities of media.
Our elderly affirm that television does not influence neither their behaviour nor their actions. (menos)

21 Final conclusions
ADVANTAGES
They allow for interactivity in an equality plane
It offers (más)

21 Final conclusions
ADVANTAGES
They allow for interactivity in an equality plane
It offers opportunities for social activism
To share technologies with its familiar aid to the intergenerational relation.
Improve self-esteem. (menos)

22 Final conclusions
DISADVANTAGES
The low use of digital technologies diminishes the (más)

22 Final conclusions
DISADVANTAGES
The low use of digital technologies diminishes the participating possibilities.
The still dominant social attitude to identify elderly people with inactivity.
The use of the television as a tool for the passive entertainment inhibits other more active proposals. (menos)